diff between online r/t and dev

I plan to move the current development system to a larger server which has runtime online 5 and v4 tools which was used for Y2K testing. I also want to move a user test d/b from our runtime/live system onto this server. My question is what products do I install? I believe that the dev products (online/4gl) will be ok for the test d/b and for developers but it would be a shame to waste the 64 user licences for the r/t products. Could i mix and match say: r/t online r/t star tcp/ip r/t 4gl (on dev system anyway) dev 4gl dev 4gl id dev sql with a mix of user licences thanks

I understand that if any 'development' licenced product is used in a configuration, then the 'development' version of the engine must also be used. You can of course use 'run-time' licensed products against a 'development' engine! Put another way, if the engine is 'run-time', then everything else must be (and further than that if you use that engine from another machine with i-star, then the other machine must be 'run-time' too) Sorry. In article <7703f7$8bc$1@mendelevium.btinternet.com> tamm@scotlegal.com "Tam McLaughlin" writes: > I plan to move the current development system to a larger server which has > runtime online 5 and v4 tools which was used for Y2K testing. I also want to > move a user test d/b from our runtime/live system onto this server. My > question is what products do I install? > I believe that the dev products (online/4gl) will be ok for the test d/b and > for developers but it would be a shame to waste the 64 user licences for the > r/t products. Could i mix and match say: > > r/t online > r/t star tcp/ip > r/t 4gl (on dev system anyway) > dev 4gl > dev 4gl id > dev sql > > with a mix of user licences > > thanks > > > -- Andy Lennard andy@kontron.demon.co.uk

>andy lennard wrote: > > I understand that if any 'development' licenced product is used > in a configuration, then the 'development' version of the engine > must also be used. You can of course use 'run-time' licensed > products against a 'development' engine! > > In article <7703f7$8bc$1@mendelevium.btinternet.com> > tamm@scotlegal.com "Tam McLaughlin" writes: > > > I plan to move the current development system to a larger server which has > > runtime online 5 and v4 tools which was used for Y2K testing. I also want to > > move a user test d/b from our runtime/live system onto this server. My > > question is what products do I install? > > I believe that the dev products (online/4gl) will be ok for the test d/b and > > for developers but it would be a shame to waste the 64 user licences for the > > r/t products. Could i mix and match say: In reality, there is no difference between the run-time and the development engines (and almost none of the products actually enforce the number of licenses, except if it's a single-user license). What you need to have is - enough licenses for the runtime licenses (tool & engine) for all the users who will be using them for runtime, and - enough licenses for the development licenses (tool & engine) for all the users who will be using them for development. This is a legal requirement, not a technical one. So your 64 user licenses for the r/t products isn't "going to waste", just because you don't install the r/t products. You now have a choice of implementations: either have one (development) installation of everything, and have the runtime users use the development version (you may not want to do this, as it gives your runtime users access to the development tools), or install the runtime and development licenses in different directories. What you cannot do, from a legal perspective, is have 64 developers running against your 64-user runtime license. But this is a legal restriction, not technical. June -- june_t@hotmail.com Grounded in Palo Alto, living on M&M's (plain)